Well technically that was not a space marine but a grey knight. Which yeah I know is akin to a Space Marine. But is a bit like saying a Adeptus Custodes is a space marine. (Wait... I think people might get confused by that to...)

It would be cool if we had a Marvel movie type deal where we had a bunch of movies about a singular topic. Probably one per major race- an Eldar movie, an Ork movie, a SPESS MARINE movie, a Chaos movie. Maybe more specific than that- about specific chapters and factions instead of races. Then have event movies where two or more of them interact. A Horus Heresy movie, for example.

I've never even played Warhammer 40K in any form, nor am I that familiar with it, but I think that might have been a better idea.

Well technically that was not a space marine but a grey knight. Which yeah I know is akin to a Space Marine. But is a bit like saying a Adeptus Custodes is a space marine. (Wait... I think people might get confused by that to...)

Ink's right. Also if you were gonna do multiple sub-franchises you'd be better off just focusing on humans because most of the alien races are just weird dumb monsters.

Seriously an Ork movie would just be hundreds of orks yelling "orks!" and "Waaaaaagh!!!" at each other and knocking each other about. Then a really big one would yell at them all and they'd jump on a meteor and invade a human world.

Right, but how many of those basement dwellers go out in public to a movie theater?

Insulting snarkiness aside, I think you're going to need to win over more than the existing fans to earn enough for a franchise. If I didn't know what Warcraft was, I'd think the movie looked like the generic fantasy movies that get dumped this time of year before blockbuster season starts.

On the other hand, they've made like 8 Underworld and Resident Evil movies, proving you can make a franchise out of dumb grimdark action, so maybe 40k could work.

The Warcraft movie is going to be dog**** and Warcraft fans will hate it even more than us muggles. They won't make it into a franchise because it's more expensive to make than those Resident Evil movies and they're not getting German tax breaks.

Actually talking about the short, CG animation of realistic human characters is a futile endeavour and the SPAZE MAHREEN doesn't even have the requisite English accent. Zero character, zero soundtrack and it was all CG so zero on costume, prop and set design.